The Psychology of Your Website Visitor

So what goes in the mind of your website visitor? What is he doing on your website? What does he want? Why is he there? Well if you can know that in advance and plan out to give him what he exactly wants. He will be a happy visitor.
 
Now what does that mean?
Well a happy visitor has high chances of clicking your offer, turning into prospect and a paid customer. Then the question is there are millions of website out there. Some of them have great traffic. But then why do they fail to engage, generate leads or make enough sales?
 
Its much easier to explain this than you think. When a visitor is on your website he is looking for some answers. And you better give them quick and right. Here are the questions he is asking-
  1. What am I doing here?
  2. How do I do it?
  3. What is in it for me?
  4. Where do I go from here?
That’s why planning is important to finish a great copy. If you fail to plan your plan to have a great copy fails. Now its not just about copy either. You should also be using design and navigation to its full capability.
 
Now if your design and navigation (usability) could not provide an obvious answer you can still do it with your copy. It is important that you answer these questions to all your website visitors. Not just the ones who are visiting you the first time.
 
Remember that your website visitors want these details on a platter. Half of the visitors will not even bother to working out answers to these questions on their own. The other half won’t succeed.
 
That’s where good copy differs from an average copy. Good copy not only answers all the questions but does them in a fashion that’s relevant to the visitor.
 
And that brings us to the next important point…
 
Understanding your core audience.
 
You got to understand who your core audience are and your copy should address the most important visitors directly. So your copy should be focused on what you can do for them. The trick there is to use the right words. Use the words that you core audience are not looking for and you have lost it.
 
Its also recommended that if you want to address two different types of audience do that by directing them to different pages.
 
Remember you have hardly few seconds to make the first impression. If you don’t hold the attention with right copy your visitor will bounce of in a snap. (Never to be seen again) They will go and convert where their questions are answered. May be at your competitors.
 
So be factual and let it speak for itself. Your descriptions should be nothing less than compelling. Avoid making them too long and hyped. While some hype is always necessary. Too much of it will repel your visitors.
 
Most of the visitors are not ready to buy immediately. Purchase does require certain level of “courtship”. You got to qualify your visitors and take them from the level of awareness to making a commitment. And so writing for each level is different and does require careful arrangement of words.
 
You can use these tips yourself or hire a professional like me to do your stuff. I tend to feel generous on weekends and prefer cranking a great copy for fun.
 
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What’s with the web copy… And how web copywriting is different?

What’s with the web copy… and how web copywriting is different?

What’s the big deal with the web copy you ask. And wonder if writing an effective copy really calls for a specialist.

Most of the people think writing web copy is easy… which isn’t. Why? Because you just don’t want to put some content out there. You want your readers and customers to engage with you, connect and take action on your website.

Only good copywriting can help you do that. You have to understand that people don’t read the website the same way they read print material.

Web Copy is different. Here’s why…

This can be summarized in 3 important aspects.

-The web users are active and not passive.

When they start reading something online…

-They figure out quickly what’s in it for them and if not they just leave.

-Most websites find it hard to retain their visitors even for the first 15 seconds.

If you are tracking bounce rates on your website and find it within 15 seconds or less…you know why.

It’s not just about long or short text its about value and engagement. You got to back up all the hype that you created. All in first 5-15 seconds, if not, you lost it, my friend.

That said, if your website user stays for first 15 seconds, congrats! You passed the first test. But it’s not over yet!

Now is the time, your website visitor starts forming an opinion. His expectation rises. They now feel they are onto something and looking at taking something away.

“Without good copywriting you can lose visitor any moment”

If you are not leading your reader with a cue and keeping the interest levels high you can still lose them. But as they near close, they are unconsciously looking at a takeaway or benefit. It has to be some way they gain or get better… now and later.

Believe it or not, a lot of websites just leave their visitors clueless on next steps. Not sure what they need to do… they wander off to other places. (maybe where you don’t want them to go yet.) Your hard work to retain them in a context is lost forever.

A good web copy will play this out well with a call to action at the end. But again call to action doesn’t simply mean placing a “click here” thingy and you are good.

No way!

There’s more to call to action than- “Click here”

Call to action has to be knitted well into the copy. It should be in a way- intuitive for the user to click the CTA. A person clicking on your link or button and asking for more is undoubtedly a prospect. And how and what information you provide them will make or break a possible lead.

Right there you have a prospect, who is not a just extra business but possibly a lifelong customer. Do you want him/her?

So what will you do? Hire a copywriter? Yes, that’s the intuitive decision you got to make today. If you like what you read so far, we should get talking. Let’s find out ways of reducing bounce times, better engagement and get more sales. All from your existing website!

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That’s where I come in…

I will assess your website from a branding, copy, lead gen and conversion standpoint and tell you where you missed. Even if you consider yourself the biggest smart ass…I bet your website still has holes to plug.

…But you never looked at it that way.
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